Quote: Originally Posted by boomana He owns them. Owns which? I can tell he owns a healthy dose of snark, but he can reply for himself I'm sure as to whether he's compared them directly.

Quote: Originally Posted by grawk you could argue it, but that'd be because you haven't heard jh13s Only way to know is to try it... have you?

Quote: Originally Posted by zeroibis I would recommend some APC battery backups. This way your never without sound! Hey works great for me... My Compass is plugged in to the APC UPS my computer is on but I don't believe it's connected to a socket that is on the battery backup...

Well it looks like my "final" Compass should be shipping today based on the email I just received confirming my address & phone #. Will be nice to finally see what the design looks like!

Quote: Originally Posted by sandchak Good to see you !.. have you sent back the old version or are you planning to have both ? I'll be keeping both but I'm not in a rush at the moment. Hopefully Kingwa will have the whole DHL mess behind him soon enough!

Hmm this sure keeps marching along, too bad I'm too busy to keep up at the moment. I wonder when I'll get a new one.

Amazing that DHL would repackage them in bags, what on Earth were they thinking? If replacing the panels is easy (like it's not the front or back panel particularly) then I imagine some will opt for replacement panels. Some of the panels look so badly damaged that even if the internals were...

Quote: Originally Posted by ecclesand PRECISELY! Only time will tell if Audio-gd will act professionally in the resolution of this mess. I was told a couple times via email that a replacement would be shipped out AFTER they received the damaged Compass. Of course, that was BEFORE the...

The more I think about this the more I feel bad for Audio-gd. You'd have to think that all the replacements they'll likely have to build will put them behind on orders a bit.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chu Did DHL tell you this? They were pretty adamant they had no record of anything incidental on my end. It would also have to be on the Hong Kong side, since some packages came in via LA with the same packaging. DHL, like most of the big shippers...

Quote: Originally Posted by Yikes I could imagine DHL damaging one and trying to get away with repacking it, I however cannot imagine them doing it multiple times from the same shipping batch. This makes me think that Kingwa ran out of boxes and tried to get away with an obviously...

Quote: Originally Posted by DaMnEd It was indeed mishandled, but I must say that the packing is greatly lacking also, a proper carton box packing with some foam (or other any other material to avoid movement inside the box) would be the way to ship an item of this size an weight...

I'm curious to see some of the bruised and battered Compasses, they're not exactly of light build. You might be right sandchak, if so then there could be a lot of problems with the recent shipments. Wonder what is going on.

Wow it sounds like DHL is giving these some major abuse. I can't imagine that, if they're still being packed like my test Compass was it sure seems pretty secure.

So have they caught up on shipping? I was expecting to see more go out the past couple days.